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Books 

 

  • Finger, Anne. Past Due: A Story of Disability, Pregnancy, and Birth (Seattle: Seal Press, 1990).  

  •  Fleischer, Doris Zames and Zames, Frieda. The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001).

  • Fries, Kenny, ed. Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out (New York: Plume, 1997).

  • Johnson, Harriet McBryde. Too Late to Die Young (New York: Picador, 2005).

  • Linton, Simi. Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity (New York: New York University Press, 1998).

  • Russell, Marta. Beyond Ramps (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1998).

  • Shakespeare, Tom, Kath Gillespie-Sells, and Dominic Davies, The Sexual Politics of Disability: Untold Desires (London: Cassell, 1996).

  • Shapiro, Joseph. No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement (New York: Times Books, 1994).

  • Shaw, Barrett, ed. The Ragged Edge: The Disability Experience from the Pages of the First Fifteen Years of The Disability Rag (Louisville, Kentucky: Avocado Press, 1994).

  • Sobsey, Dick. Violence and Abuse in the Lives of People with Disabilities (Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Publishing, 1994).Books

  • Blackbridge, Persimmon and Gilhooly, Still Sane (Vancouver, BC: Press Gang, 1986).

  • Brownsworth, Victoria and Raffo, Susan, eds., Restricted Access (Seattle: Seal Press, 1999).

  • Clare, Eli, Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation (Cambridge: South End Press, 1999).

  • Fries, Kenny, Body, Remember (New York: Dutton, 1997).

  • Guter, Bob and Killacky, John, eds., Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories (New York: Harrington Park Press, 2004).

  • Kaufman, Miriam, Silverberg, Corey, and Odette, Fran, The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability (San Francisco: Cleis Press, 2003).

  • Luczak, Raymond, ed., Eyes of Desire 2: A Deaf GLBT Reader (Minneapolis: Handtype Press, 1993).

  • McRuer, Robert, Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability (New York: New York University Press, 2006).

  • McRuer, Robert, and Wilkerson, Abby L, ed., Desiring Disability: Queer Theory Meets Disability Studies (GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Volume 9, Numbers 1-2, 2003).

  • Panzarino, Connie, The Me in the Mirror (Seattle: Seal Press, 1994).

  • Tremain, Shelley, Pushing the Limits: Disabled Dykes Produce Culture (Toronto: Women’s Press, 1996).

 

Not Dead Yet is a national, grassroots disability rights group that opposes legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia as deadly forms of discrimination against old, ill and disabled people. Not Dead Yet helps organize and articulate opposition to these practices based on secular social justice arguments. Not Dead Yet demands the equal protection of the law for the targets of so called “mercy killing” whose lives are seen as worth-less.

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The University of California, Davis, is committed to ensuring equal educational opportunities for students with disabilities. An integral part of that commitment is the coordination of specialized academic support services through the Student Disability Center (SDC).

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This guide has been created to help individuals living with disabilities, and their family members, in the process of buying a home of their own. Here you can learn more about the five important steps in buying a home and about financial assistance programs that are available for you living with disabilities, who want to buy a home.

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NorCRID (the Northern California Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf) is a non-profit organization committed to professional development, networking and fundraising efforts for professional interpreters, students of interpreting, and supporters of the interpreting community. NorCRID serves to make the emerging profession of interpreting more viable to its consumers and practitioners.

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Assuring your vital services can be accessed by Deaf people is as easy as making a phone call. Many Deaf people use Sign Language to communicate, and require interpreters when dealing with people not fluent in Sign. Bay Area Communication Access (BACA) is a San Francisco based company providing qualified Sign Language Interpreters since 1983.

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Disability Resources is a nonprofit organization that provides information about resources for independent living. We disseminate information about books, pamphlets, magazines, newsletters, videos, databases, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, telephone hotlines and on-line services that provide free, inexpensive or hard-to-find information to help people with disabilities live independently.

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Deaf, Counseling, Advocacy & Referral Agency (DCARA), is a non-profit, community-based social service agency serving the Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Late-Deafened and Deaf-blind (D/HH/LD/DB) community. Established in 1962 as one of the first Deaf-run agencies in the country, DCARA provides a comprehensive range of programs and services to the Deaf community living in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area of California.

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Resources 

For Caregivers:

 

The Well Spouse Association (WSA)

wellspouse.org

Phone: 800/838-0879

WSA is a peer-to-peer support group for husbands, wives, or partners of chronically ill, injured, or individuals with a long-term disability. WSA is a community of active spousal caregivers and former caregivers that offers support groups, an on-line chat room and forum, bi-monthly weekend respite events, and a national conference.

 

Caregiver Action Network (CAN)

Phone: 202/772-5050

caregiveraction.org

Non-profit organization providing education, peer support, and resources to family caregivers nationwide. CAN serves a broad spectrum of family caregivers ranging from the parents of children with special needs, to the families and friends of wounded soldiers; from a young couple dealing with a diagnosis of MS, to adult children caring for parents with Alzheimer’s disease.

 

Family Caregiver Alliance (FCA)

Phone: 800/445-8106

caregiver.org

Founded in 1977, Family Caregiver Alliance was the first community-based nonprofit organization in the country to address the needs of families and friends providing longterm care at home. FCA now offers programs at national, state and local levels to support and sustain caregivers. Its goals include public advocacy for those with financial and emotional distress, direct services to family caregivers (in California), and the national distribution of information on cargiving and the care of people with chronic disabling conditions.

 

Family Caregiver Navigator from the Family Caregiver Alliance (FCA)

caregiver.org/family-care-navigator

A clickable map helps family caregivers locate public, nonprofit, and private programs and services nearest their loved one, living at home or in a residential facility. Resources include government health and disability programs, legal resources, disease specific Organizations, and more.

 

National Caregivers Library (NCL)

Phone: 804/327-1111

caregiverslibrary.org

The library consists of hundreds of useful articles, forms, checklists and links to topicspecific external resources. It is organized into logical categories that address the key needs of caregivers and their loved ones. The library also provides tools to help employers understand the impact of caregiving on their people and on the organization itself. It provides tools to help identify the organizational costs of working caregivers and ways to analyze, justify, develop and implement Caregiving and Eldercare programs to help employees.

 

ARCH National Respite Network and Resource Center

The mission of the Resource Center is to assist and promote the development of quality respite and crisis care programs in the United States; to help families locate respite and crisis care services in their communities; and to serve as a strong voice for respite in all forums. They publish the “ABC’s of Respite: A Consumer Guide for Family Caregivers,” available to download in PDF format. Find respite care and funding options in a specific community through the ARCH National Respite Locator Service at: archrespite.org/respitelocator.

 

Caregiving Resource Center from the AARP

aarp.org/home-family/caregiving.

The Caregiving Resource Center is an online resource and community for family caregivers that helps caregivers take care of their loved ones and themselves. Features a wide variety of sections including: care for yourself; caregiving basics; long distance care; benefits and insurance; legal and money matters; senior housing; end of life care; ask the AARP caregiving advisory panel; and an on-line community of other caregivers.

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